...DR. STEVEN LAGER (30s, fresh faced, trustworthy) and his husband GRANT MASON (40s, masculine, brooding) have recently moved to Wilmette, IL, an idyllic North Shore Chicago suburb with the hopes of adopting a baby and starting a family. Steven works as a Neurologist, while his husband Grant is a craftsman who builds beautiful stylized furniture made of wood and glass. Prior to coming out, and marrying Steven, Grant lived in a similar suburb with his ex-wife BRIANA (40ish, attractive, kind) and their only child EMMA (20, blunt, psych major). The couple attends a neighborhood barbecue where they meet their relatively nice, yet generic, suburbanite neighbors. The most notable however is LANGSTON (17, beautiful, mixed race, witty) who has a pet pig she walks like a dog. Although the couple is approved by the Department of Family Services for adoption, a visit to their CASE WORKER reveals that of the 14 countries...
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...Beautiful advice from a divorced man after 16 years of marriage My advice after a divorce following 16 years of marriage, by Gerald Rogers. Obviously, I’m not a relationship expert. But there’s something about my divorce being finalized this week that gives me perspective of things I wish I would have done different… After losing a woman that I loved, and a marriage of almost 16 years, here’s the advice I wish I would have had 1. Never stop courting. Never stop dating. NEVER EVER take that woman for granted. When you asked her to marry you, you promised to be that man that would OWN HER HEART and to fiercely protect it. This is the most important and sacred treasure you will ever be entrusted with. SHE CHOSE YOU. Never forget that, and NEVER GET LAZY in your love. 2. Protect your own heart. Just as you committed to being the protector of her heart, you must guard your own with the same vigilance. Love yourself fully, love the world openly, but there is a special place in your heart where no one must enter except for your wife. Keep that space always ready to receive her and invite her in, and refuse to let anyone or anything else enter there. 3. Fall in love over and over again. You will constantly change. You’re not the same people you were when you got married, and in five years you will not be the same person you are today. Change will come, and in that you have to re-choose each other everyday. SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO STAY WITH YOU, and if you don’t take care of her heart...
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...It was the year of 1903 and the Exeter’s where having a kid. They did not know what gender it was but no matter what they already knew what to call it. If a boy Lawrence Exeter JR a girl Emily. They were so happy that they got so many things that they almost went broke jest that day! But if you know the Exeter’s they got more money the next day. They really got about $5000 dollars the next day! They got whatever they thought he/she would ever want. They got it toy cars, toy trains, beach balls, and a playground. The playground they thought was the best for the kid. The day was here! After 9 months and 1 week and 3 days. It was here! It was a boy! They went out to get more toys and shoes for it (you can't really know what size the shoes would be). They used cash for it they needed to get more checks. The checks where here (they really did not like using cash). They got more toys for the kid (with checks this time). This time it was the year of 1909 and the kid is now 6 year old! And today is his first day of school! See, because they are rich they he is going to a border school. He will be not see his parents for a whole year. It is going to be hard on everyone school and everything. Today they are getting him a bicycle and are taking him home for the year. 6 years have gone by and the kid is now 11 years old and he is a bad sassy kid that is going to Columbia Military Academy. He is going to school there and he very much so hates it. By the time he is 17 years old he has a...
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...Á Assalato Wasallaamo ‘Alaika Yaa Rasool Allah À Wa ‘Alaa Aalika Wa As Haabika Yaa Noor Allah À Divorce and Waiting Period Author: Maulana Mohammed Shakir ‘Ali Noorie (Ameer – Sunni Dawat e Islami) Published by: Maktab e Taibah Markaz Ismail Habib Masjid 126, Kambekar St, Mumbai 3. Rights of Spouses Book Name: Compilation: Divorce and Waiting Period Maulana Mohammed Shakir ‘Ali Noorie. (Ameer- Sunni Dawat e Islami) Translation: Quantity: Price: Published: Hafiz Muhammed Salim Noorie (Canada) (Muballig, Sunni Dawat e Islami) Maktab e Taibah (Sunni Dawat e Islami), 2010 Copyright Reserved For further queries, please contact: WORLDWIDE HEADQUARTERS MAKTAB E TAIBAH Ismail Habib Masjid, 126 Kambekar St, Mumbai-3 Tel: 0091 22 23434366 U.K. MARKAZ S.D.I. Noor Mosque, Noor St, Preston, U.K. Tel: 0044 1772 881786 Website: www.sunnidawateislami.net 2 Rights of Spouses CONTENTS Literal Translation of Divorce.................................................................... 4 Conventional Meaning of Divorce............................................................ 4 Types of Divorce.......................................................................................... 4 Best (Ahsan) Divorce .................................................................................. 4 Good (Hasan) Divorce ................................................................................ 5 Reprehensible (Bad’i) Divorce ....................
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...3 WEDDINGS 1. Introduction 2. Philosophy 3. Legal Issues 4. Rehearsal 5. The Wedding Order of Worship 6. Processional 7. Formal Wedding Celebration 8. Simple Wedding Service 9. Brief Wedding Service 10. Wedding Sermons 11. Recessional 12. Premarital Conferences Introduction Jesus must have loved weddings. His first miracle took place at one. Some of his analogies regarding his relationship to the church are described in wedding terms. Paul likewise emphasizes the importance of marriage when he compares it to Christ’s relationship to the church. And in Revelation John explains Christ’s marriage relationship with the church as eternal. It is no wonder that Christians place high importance on weddings. Here are some ideas that might help as you perform these ceremonies on a regular basis. Philosophy You need to have a clear and defined philosophy about performing weddings. Since the function is not described or prescribed in Scripture, some ministers take the position that performing weddings is not strictly a “ministry” function. They see their role as nothing more than an agent of the state, much like a justice of the peace, in this regard. Thus they will perform weddings for just about anyone, member or non-member, Christian or unchurched. For some, this can become a significant source of extra income. Other ministers believe very strongly that performing...
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...Elon Musk: An Entrepreneur With a Huge Success Linda E. Buehler Keiser University Fort Lauderdale, FL 25 February 2016 Elon Musk: An Entrepreneur With a Huge Success Elon Reeve Musk a man worth $10.7 billion was born June 28th, 1971 in Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa to a beautiful model named Maye from Regina Saskatchewan, and Errol Musk, a South Arican-born electromechanical engineer (“Elon Musk”, 22 February 2016). Elon is the oldest of 3 with having a younger brother and sister. Elon’s parents were divorced when he was still young while he resided with his father most of his youth in South Africa he eventually gained citizenship to Canada through his mother and moved there just before his 18th birthday. Elon had been severely bullied growing up but if anything that might of helped him in discovering the computing with the Commodore VIC-20 at the age of 10 and at the age of 12 sold the code for a BASIC-based video game he called Blastar for approximately $500.00 USD (“Elon Musk”, 22 February 2016). At the age of 19 Elon attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario after a short 2 years there he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, in which he studied and received a bachelor’s degree in physics at the College of Arts and Sciences, then a bachelor’s degree in economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1995 Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in applied physics at Stanford University only to drop the program after two...
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...mother decided to leave St. Louis without telling her. It was on that day that she went to live with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya’s grandmother was a very strict lady and made sure that Maya and her brother would grow up to be the best people they could be. Maya’s grandmother made a great impact on her and her brother’s lives. Because of her grandmother, Maya can often be quoted as saying “ If you don’t appreciate the things you have, other people will treat them with contempt.” (Courtney-Clarke 90). Although Maya could not talk until the age of nine, she still managed to excel in school. In 1940 she graduated at the top of her eighth grade class (Bloom 219). She went on to attend George Washington High School. She graduated from high school in 1945 (Williams 145). After high school, Angelou moved to San Francisco, California...
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...Impact of changing bridal selection criteria on Women ' s empowerment in Bangladesh A Dissertation by Shegufta Yasmin I D 05362001 Approved hy: Supervisor: Dr. Ferdous Jahan Academic Coordinator BRAC Development Institute, BRAC University --------------Director Professor Syed M. Hashemi BRAC Development Institute BRAC University Acknowledgement 1. Shegufta Yasmin bearing ID 05362001 am expressing my heart full gratitude to Almighty Allah for giving me the capability to complete this dissertation successfully. Next I am cordially grateful to Dr. Ferdous Jahan. Development Studies Program, BRAC University for her sincere help to give me a chance to complete my dissertation. Without her support it was impossible for me to complete this dissertation. Abstract A woman I girl is usually it burden for it family in our country . Generally no mother or father feels happy if they give birth of a baby girl. Then and then they start to do worry for the baby if it is not have fair skin colour . Parents start thinking of its marriage . This is the scenario of it girl. An infant also has to suffer for her beauty. A girl's journey starts just after her birth . In it teenage a girl can understand her parent ' s tension for her marriage . She starts to suffer in inferiority complex or superiority complex for her complexion etc. Both are harmful . Its like a poison for it girl's mind that she thinks herself outcast only for her physical beauty . On the...
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...Let me be clear that the fact that men are visually drawn to women does not make it okay to engage in lustful looks. It is not a wise practice for any man who wants to protect his marriage, and in many cases it can be an issue of sin. Jesus said that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery with her in his heart (Matthew 5:27-28). So while your husband is likely being honest when he says he has no intention of doing anything beyond looking, the act of looking can still be a problem, especially if he is replaying it in his mind later. Not only that, but in his situation he is not even trying to be discreet about it when you’re around, and that is cause for concern. If he freely looks when you are with him, how bold is he when you are not present? 1) Whenever we go anywhere, could be a reception, stores, etc ( basicly anywhere there are other people) he looks/stare at girls/women.. I have been married for 8 years and been talking to him about this ever since. I have asked him several times not to do it, that it bothers me. He says he likes to look, that everyone is different. The next time I caught him staring, I told him you can stare all you want when I am not there, just don't do it infront of me, .. I sometime ignore him but not all the time... it really hurts me.. For eg. we were doing grocery shopping the other day when he saw this girl and he looked/stare at her, its like she had a magnet on her body.. He couldn't help looking.. He is looking at...
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...A whistle-blower’s lawsuit alerts Galvatrens to deep flaws in its system for uncovering misconduct. How should management and the board respond? HBR CASE STUDY Why Didn’t We Know? by Ralph Hasson COPYRIGHT © 2007 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. It was 9:30 in the evening of what had been a very long Friday when the phone rang in Chip Brownlee’s home study. On the line was Arch Carter, the lead director of Galvatrens, the Houston-based consumer products company that Chip had led as chairman and CEO for the past ten years. “I just got your voice mail,” Arch said. “The parts about a lawsuit and accusations that we manipulated our sales numbers certainly got my attention. What’s going on?” “At this point, I don’t know much,” Chip responded, “but I wanted to give you a heads-up. A former divisional sales manager has filed a lawsuit against the company, charging he was wrongfully terminated because he tried to report an illegal scheme to inflate sales.” Chip had received a copy of the lawsuit that afternoon. As he’d read through the complaint, he’d gotten a whole new perspective on the multiple departures that had rocked Sales dur- ing the past four weeks. The plaintiff was Mike Fields, who had left Galvatrens three weeks earlier. He claimed that he’d come across a plan devised by Greg Wilson, another divisional sales manager. According to Mike, Greg had proposed shipping goods to a few of his bigger customers, billing them, and booking the sales—...
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...ISLAM Marriage Concept in Malaysia 2014 1) Introduction Muslims today face many obstacles and challenges as well as attacks from the enemies thought the various outside, they also face the problem of ignorance of some Muslim individuals in mastering the knowledge of Islam. Among their ignorance in understanding the laws pertaining to the family institution in Islam such as marriage, divorce and its consequences. Rising divorce as reported by the religious authorities and the increasing violence of the crisis, in addition to cases of spousal abuse and child are endless, enough concern us today. The collapse of the family is the cause of this phenomenon is believed to trigger. This requires Muslims to look back on how far the regulations contained in the system status. System status is a unique system. It aims to organize a more systematic relationship between family-based tenets of men with female family involved. Islamic motifs in the family construction is premised on faith and seeks to do the rituals. Assuming that the Muslim community in this day and age to follow and practice all raised in the system status, I'm sure they will achieve a happy life is not only the world but also in the hereafter. One statistic that is alarming the country has ever issued by JAKIM. According to the report, the occurrence of one case of divorce for every 15 minutes of the husband and wife who are Muslims in Malaysia. The number of divorces in Malaysia has more than doubled over the eight...
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...I ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This research paper is made possible through the help and support from everyone, including: parents, teachers, family, friends, and in essence, all sentient beings. Especially, please allow me to dedicate my acknowledgment of gratitude toward the following significant advisors and contributors: First and foremost, I would like to thank to Mrs. Juliet Lamug our English Teacher to Mrs. Jocelyn Ligsay the librarian in allowing the researcher to use the library in full accommodation. Second, I would like to thank to Mr. Isabelo V. Agpalza Jr. and Ms. Marissa V. Agpalza to read my Research Paper and to provide valuable advices. Finally, I sincerely thank to my parents, family, and friends, who provide the advice and financial support. The product of this research paper would not be possible without all of them. And I would like also to thank to our Almighty God. The researcher II DEDICATION This Research Paper is lovingly dedicated to our respective parents who have been our constant source of inspiration. They have given us the drive and discipline to tackle any task with enthusiasm and determination. Without their love and support this project would not have been made possible. The researcher III Table of Contents I. Title Page-----------------------------------------------------------I II. Acknowledgement-----------------------------------------------II III. Dedication---------------------------------------------------------III ...
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...Biblical and Quranic narratives From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Qur'an, the central religious text of Islam, contains references to over fifty people and events also found in the Bible. While the stories told in each book are generally comparable in most respects, important differences sometimes emerge. Anything in the Bible that agrees with the Qur'an is accepted by Muslims, and anything in the Bible that disagrees with the Qur'an is not accepted by Muslims. Many stories in the Bible are not mentioned at all in the Qur'an; with regard to such passages, Muslims are instructed to maintain neutral positions, but to read them and pass them on if they wish to do so. Often, stories related in the Qur'an tend to concentrate Islamic moral or spiritual significance of events rather than the details.[1] Western scholars tend to analyze similarities between Biblical and Quranic accounts of the same person or event as being evidence for the influence of pre-existing traditions on the composition of the Qur'an.[2] From a traditionalist Muslim perspective, such a discussion would make no sense; Muslims believe that the Qur'an was sent from God through the angel Gabriel to the prophet Muhammad in a series of revelations, and this divinely revealed text was then progressively dictated (word for word, and over and over again to make certain that there were no mistakes) by Muhammad to the followers of Islam. Moreover, Muslims believe that the Biblical tradition was corrupted over...
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...Stressors……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 Horizontal Stressors……………………………………………………………………………………………………….10 System Level Stressors………………………………………………………………………………………………….11 The Couple’s Relationship Strengths……………………………………………………………………………11 Guidelines for couples…………………………………………………………………………………………………….13 Critique of the family life cycle model……………………………………………………………………….14 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………16 1 Introduction to the family 1. I interviewed a young couple, the husband Bongai Jinguri, is thirty two years old. He is a Chartered Accountant working for a very reputable accounting firm in Harare. Bongai’s beautiful young wife is Lorraine, who is twenty nine years old. Lorraine is also an accountant. They met when Lorraine was an articled clerk at the accounting firm where Bongai used to work. Lorraine, who is a new mother, is doing consultancy work from home. She is the mother of a ten month old, adorable angelic baby boy Tadiwa Anatsa. Bongai and Lorraine belong to the young generation of Zimbabweans, who are very westernised...
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...she hooked up with one of the city's eligible bachelors. The question remains, is this a company we want to own? Tim was 42. A well-liked and respected banker, who made about two million a year. They met one evening, in typical New York fashion, at a gallery opening. Like it? Yes, actually I think it's quite interesting. What? I feel like I know you. Oh, doubtful. I just moved here from London. Really? That's my favorite city. It is? Absolutely. It was love at first sight. You know, I think perhaps I have met you somewhere before. For two weeks they snuggled... went to romantic restaurants... had wonderful sex... and shared the most intimate secrets. One day, he took her to a house he saw in the New York Times. How about if we start at the top? There are four bedrooms upstairs. Do you have any children? Not yet. That day Tim popped the question. Would you like to meet my folks Tues-day night? I'd love to. On Tuesday he called with some bad news. My mother's not feeling very well. Oh, gosh, I'm sorry. Can we take a rain check? Of course. Tell your mum I hope she feels better. When she hadn't heard from him for two weeks, she called. Tim, it's Elizabeth. That's an awfully long rain check. He said he was up to his ears and that he'd call the next day. He never did call... Bastard. She told me one day over coffee. I don't understand. in England, looking at houses together would have meant something. I realized no one had told her about the end of love in Manhattan. Welcome to the...
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